Since August, Italy has required Digital Covid Certs to access indoor dining or cultural venues. But the system has one key difference to Ireland’s: people can also obtain a 48-hour Covid Cert with a negative antigen or PCR test, even if they have not been vaccinated.
Now that the Delta variant accounts for 99% of cases in Europe, a top advisor to Italy’s health minister has warned that the policy should be reversed.
Professor Walter Ricciardi, the minister’s scientific advisor on the Covid-19 pandemic, is one of two experts who spoke to Prime Time about the Covid-19 situation in Europe.
He said that antigen tests were the "Achilles heel of the Covid pass". He gave strong backing to Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan’s cautious stance on